Sam's tagging thing
It's like one of those chain email things: I know I could ignore it but I feel I should take on Sam's challenge. So now I have to write about my week in media:
What I read
Boy am I glad I didn't buy a crappy magazine last weekend when I was browsing in WHSmith. Instead I bought nice serious magazines that I feel proud to say I read this week: Private Eye and The Economist. I am so glad I bought such excellent magazines.
I also finished my latest detective story, Verdict of Twelve. It was okay, but it was all about the jurors and how they responded to the evidence, and what I really want is a good puzzle I can figure out from lots of clues. So I'm just going to have to read another one in my continuing quest for the perfect story.
I get in trouble sometimes, though, for reading when I'm supposed to be watching a film, so I've found a new technique: read a plot synopsis at the start of the film, then just pop in and out of the film every now and again without getting muddled and having to ask others to explain.
What I watched
Quite a lot of Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack I'm ashamed to say. It's sort of addictive. I also semi-watched 300 (this is where I discovered the plot synopsis technique), Casino Royale (Melanie had never seen a James Bond film) and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which I enjoyed quite a lot, although there were some bits that were stupid (like the way the wardrobe was in a room on its own covered in a thingy, it should have just been an ordinary wardrobe). But it was very good, and Aslan was much more convincing as a lion than in the TV series.
Every morning before work I've been watching Wanted Down Under. It's rubbish, I don't know why I've been watching it. But, as Sam mentioned, we caught the most wonderful programme on Friday morning: KNTV. It was so very bizarre, and I felt that the moment that trumped the people dancing around covered in oil was the bit with a man sitting on a really old single-person plough smoking a pipe, being pushed by one woman and pulled by another as they ploughed what looked like a garden. It was wonderful.
What I listened to
My favourite thing I listened to this week was Jacques Loussier: Play Bach. I haven't listened to that for ages, but I fancied something nice to cook to on Sunday afternoon. I haven't listened to anything else particularly exciting this week, just a good bit of radio. And it wasn't even very good radio. I need to bring my CDs back to work.
What I surfed
Quite a lot. I've been keeping an eye on the NUS debate in Education Guardian, watching the commentary on our governance review, and trying to find the best priced place to buy printed round stickers and paper bags. I have also been researching my upcoming holiday in Croatia but the websites aren't very good so I've been mostly looking at pictures of Plitvice national park.
The most striking internet thingy this week was reading the BBC news website last night, reloading the main page and suddenly finding that Heath Ledger had died, and that we had found out about it two hours after it happened, and two minutes after the BBC had posted about it on their website. Isn't it weird that you can find out about someone you don't know who has died several thousand miles away so quickly? It felt very odd.
What I've played
Not a lot, except for a hefty amount of Minesweeper. I think I inherit my inability to just talk to people on the phone from Dad, I have to be playing a game or something at the same time. I think it might annoy people sometimes but I listen better when I'm playing a game.
So there. I don't really know who to tag since I'm really only writing for Ian these days. Ian, reply if you like, might be interesting to see what you're up to in Ghana media-wise.
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